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CDC Study: Antibiotics Used as Pesticides Facilitate Antibiotic Resistance

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CDC Study: Antibiotics Used as Pesticides Facilitate Antibiotic Resistance

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have conducted a study that finds that medically important antibiotics that the EPA wants to re-approve for expanded pesticide use on crops can facilitate antibiotic resistance in bacteria. Those pathogens pose “urgent” and “serious” threats to human health. The results of this study were obtained by the Center for … Read more

EPA Wants to Spray Antibiotics to Stop Citrus Greening Disease

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CDC Study: Antibiotics Used as Pesticides Facilitate Antibiotic Resistance

Advocates from environmental and public health groups have delivered a petition to the Environmental Protection Agency asking them to delay a proposal to spray antibiotic on citrus fields to treat a pathogen that causes citrus greening disease, according to the Center for Biological Diversity. Advocates think that this action could make bacterial antibiotic resistance worse. … Read more